I think I finally do. For a long time I would see posts like GP's on 4chan and wonder if someone is really making them with a straight face unironically, or if it's part of some master troll orchestrated by a grand ruseman. For a while the grand ruseman theory seemed more believable, but seeing a normal person make such a comment on HN makes me think that perhaps most such posts are really made by normal people which, perhaps paradoxically, actually restores a bit of my faith in humanity. I mean, compared to the idea of people with nothing better to do than orchestrate stupid posts on 4chan of all places.
I think I finally do. For a long time I would see posts like GP's on 4chan and wonder if someone is really making them with a straight face unironically, or if it's part of some master troll orchestrated by a grand ruseman. For a while the grand ruseman theory seemed more believable, but seeing a normal person make such a comment on HN makes me think that perhaps most such posts are really made by normal people which, perhaps paradoxically, actually restores a bit of my faith in humanity. I mean, compared to the idea of people with nothing better to do than orchestrate stupid posts on 4chan of all places.